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Why This Charity Has Stopped Asking For Money

In 2017, No Lean Season raised nearly $12 million to help farmhands in Bangladesh travel to the city to find jobs when fields lay fallow. Now they're saying "no" to donations. What happened?

A duck covered in a thick coating of crude oil, picked up when it lighted on waters off Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara County, Calif., after the oil spill in January 1969.

How California's Worst Oil Spill Turned Beaches Black And The Nation Green

In 1969, oil from an offshore well left beaches in Santa Barbara, Calif., coated with crude and littered with dead birds. The country's reaction helped create the modern environmental movement.

Co-directors Grace and John Slaby live in a home on the Kowiachobee Animal Preserve in Naples, Fla.

A Home To Big Cats And Raccoons Recovers After Hurricane Irma

After last month's hurricane, a Florida animal preserve that is home to more than 100 domestic and exotic animals is working on repairs. The owners are still "bouncing back."

SINKING CITIES

Airs Wednesdays, Oct. 31-Nov. 21, 2018 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Sundays, Nov. 4-25 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2

A Perseid meteor crosses along the Milky Way in August 2017, illuminating the dark sky near Comillas, in northern Spain.

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks This Weekend — Just Look Up

The shower will peak late Sunday night and early Monday morning, but you can also catch a good number of meteors in the middle of the night on Saturday. Find a dark spot and let your eyes adjust.

Trina Jo Bradley at the gate to one of her ranch's pastures. Like most ranchers here, she's been largely accommodating of the grizzlies as their population has rebounded and they've spread off of the neighboring mountains into the more populated plains.

As Grizzlies Come Back, Frustration Builds Over Continued Protections

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service keeps trying, and failing, to get grizzly bears taken off the endangered species list. Some worry that frustration over this could hurt efforts to protect the bears.

Facebook acknowledged Wednesday that $100,000 of ads during the 2016 election appeared to be linked to Russia.

Facebook Acknowledges Russian Ads In 2016 Election. Will Investigations Follow?

Facebook says $100,000 worth of ads appeared to come from Russia and seemed to be linked. Sometimes the ads named the candidates, but mostly, they targeted divisive social and political issues.

Is It A Nasty Cold Or The Flu?

Knowing how to differentiate between symptoms of each can be important, especially if you're at high risk for flu's complications. Influenza can lead to pneumonia, hospitalization and even death.

The Yale Babylonian Collection houses four unique tablets that contain various recipes for stews, soups and pies. Three of these tablets date back to the Old Babylonian period, no later than 1730 B.C.

Eat Like The Ancient Babylonians: Researchers Cook Up Nearly 4,000-Year-Old Recipes

Written on four tablets, three of which date back no later than 1730 B.C., the recipes are considered to be the oldest known. And they taste pretty good, says a scholar who re-created them.

Foam soup containers are stacked in a New York restaurant, Feb. 14, 2013.

Councilman Ward Proposes Banning Styrofoam In San Diego

San Diego may become the fourth city in the county to ban Styrofoam food and beverage containers.

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